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<DIV> <SPAN class=correction id="">Fascinating</SPAN> stuff! Did any one read the sections on homemade</DIV>
<DIV>valves(tubes)? Wonderful! In the first section he describes <SPAN class=correction id="">making</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV>a <SPAN class=correction id="">high-vac</SPAN> vacuum gage, just spot on, that is one of the ways it is done. Although Mr.<SPAN class=correction id="">Steiner</SPAN> did let the filaments go to air the tube still operated. </DIV>
<DIV>If any one tries this flood the <SPAN class=correction id="">evacuated</SPAN> spaces with nitrogen or other inert gas.</DIV>
<DIV>Think I will get my Varian vacuum pump out of its case and look around</DIV>
<DIV>for some old auto tail lamps. Maybe a <SPAN class=correction id="">sdiy</SPAN> valve synthesizer with <SPAN class=correction id="">sdiy</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV>vacuum tubes? Another project.</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=correction id="">Jeri</SPAN></DIV> <BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Ian Fritz <<SPAN class=correction id="">ijfritz</SPAN>@earthlink.net><BR>To: R. D. Davis <<SPAN class=correction id="">rdd</SPAN>@rddavis.<SPAN class=correction id="">org</SPAN>>; synth-diy@dropmix.xs4all.nl<BR>Sent: Fri, 03 <SPAN class=correction id="">Jun</SPAN> 2005 08:55:24 -0600<BR>Subject: Re: [<SPAN class=correction id="">sdiy</SPAN>] <SPAN class=correction id="">DIY</SPAN> Electronic Components and Tubes 101<BR><BR>
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<DIV class=AOLPlainTextBody id=AOLMsgPart_0_34f8a007-2de8-4baa-8e11-700404611941>At 10:13 PM 6/2/05, R. D. Davis wrote: <BR> <BR>>Before getting to that, however, and getting back to the topic of <BR>>through-hole components becoming <SPAN class=correction id="">unobtanium</SPAN>, take a look at the <BR>>following web page, where someone is creating his own electronic <BR>>components---including a triode, and other interesting things as well: <BR>> <BR>> <A href="http://home.earthlink.net/~lenyr/" target=_blank>http://home.earthlink.net/~<SPAN class=correction id="">lenyr</SPAN>/</A> <BR> <BR>That "someone" is <SPAN class=correction id="">Nyle</SPAN> <SPAN class=correction id="">Steiner</SPAN>, inventor of the <SPAN class=correction id="">EVI</SPAN>/<SPAN class=correction id="">EWI</SPAN> wind controllers and of a certain early <SPAN class=correction id="">VCF</SPAN> that has been quite popular around here lately!
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